Paul Giamatti (Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti) Quotes
I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
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Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.
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The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
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You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.
Nastassja Kinski -
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
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It's been great having my little girl. It's like having a workout 24 hours a day. I don't need to go to the gym! I'm chasing after my daughter everywhere she goes.
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Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.
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The writer works in a lonely way.
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If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.
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The two things that I require for anyone who's around me: you need to love food, and you need to be able to laugh.
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A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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Even if I did give a good talk, is what I have to say more important and interesting than what Colin Powell said?
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Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.
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Be loving to yourself and others will see that love reciprocated. This rule works every time.
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For longer than I've been involved in the political process, the Republican establishment has claimed to want to provide an alternative for the black community, yet party elite refuse to show up for the game.
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I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.
